UGANDA: Coup or Con Job?

Whether by accident or design,
Uganda's President-for-Life Idi Amin Dada seems bent on making his
country the world's most unfathomable nation. At the center of the
puzzle, as always, are the maneuvers of "Big Daddy" himself. Last week
he managed to be even more mysterious than usual. For four days, Amin
simply disappeared from view. By the time he resurfaced, by way of
reassuring announcements on Radio Uganda, all sorts of stories had
floated that there had been an unsuccessful attempt on his life and a
subsequent bloodbath by his dread State Research Bureau.